Re: Manual updates

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

Thanks.  See inline ...

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Bryan A. Jones <bjones () ece msstate edu>wrote:

> Joel and Josh,
>
> Thanks for the quick feedback. Here's what I've got thus far. I can supply
> further edits as I read and work through it more; would you first review
> what I've done to let me know if this is helpful?

Yes - very helpful.  I've opened a bug and attached your patch.  We will
review and incorporate appropriate changes in a future release.

> Also, are the readme.* files in doc/ auto-generated from the manual, or
> must be them hand-edited?

Unfortunately, at this point, hand-edited.  Now, if you have the time to
generate all the docs and web pages from a single set of source files,
using say, asciidoc, ... ;)

> Bryan
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 22, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Joshua Kinard <kumba () gentoo org> wrote:
> >
> > On 06/22/2012 12:20 PM, Bryan A. Jones wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I'm coming up to speed on Snort by reading and editing the manual. Is
> > anyone interested in changes applied to docs/snort_manual.tex, v. 2.9.3
> > beta (when I downloaded it)? If so, should I sent the whole file, a diff,
> > ?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> >
> > Sending a diff is best, in unified format (I use -Naurp to diff).  That is
> > how I have sent in proposed changes to the manual.
> >
> >
> > Joshua is correct.  Please diff your proposed changes and send them here
> > to the snort-devel list.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
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